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M&M Lab

For our M&M lab, the question we wanted to find the answer to was, “Is there a dominant color of M&M?” Our prediction was that green was the dominate color. The independent variable is how many of each color of M&M’s there are, and the dependent variable which colors there were the most of in the M&M’s.

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At the end of our M&M lab, our hypothesis was proven wrong. We thought that there would be a dominant M&M color, and we thought that the dominant color would be green. After checking with the pie chart, green was the fourth color. There actually was a dominant color in our group though. After all the data was placed together, the dominant color was orange, however, there was no dominant color in every bag.

Hypothesis- a scientific guess
Data gathering- collects and measure data
Multiple trials- how many times you do the experiment
Variance- being different
Average- all numbers in a set are added together and divided by however many there were
Median- middle number in a set of data
Mode- appears most often in a set of data
Histogram- special kind of bar graph where the intervals are equal
Pie chart-a circle is split into different sections that each represents part of the graph
Inference- an answer formed off of reasoning and evidence